Just a quick clarification: When I use the term Gay, I mean homosexuals who are open and not in the closet. There's plenty of people who are homosexual, but are not open about their sexuality. So, the hyopthesis here is that young people who are homosexual have a better chance of coming to terms with their sexuality in college than not. I'm betting this holds true even of urbanites. In my experience growing up in a very working class section of LA, homosexuality was not accepted and , depending on your peer group, could even be life threatening if your orientation was found out. So, the gays were banished Wilshire-ward to West Hollywood, Santa Monica and so on. The funny thing was that gay outsiders who moved into my area were just accepted as a type of foreigner with strange habits. Working class urbanites can be just as insular and intolerant of other lifestyles as rural folk, especially during times of economic upheaval.